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George W. Brown
1137 W. Sherri Drive .. Gilbert, AZ 85233 .. 480-892-5675 .. george.w.brown@cox.net
Experienced Innovation Manager with recent focus on Business Agility
Sr. Program Manager/Principal Software Scientist/Software Architect/Project Manager/Systems Analyst/Director
I am responsible for working with senior management of business units and application groups to
define business strategy, architecture of business applications, and strategies for applying
information technology to improve business competitiveness. I manage research projects for
cross-functional strategies to improve business processes and am involved in external research
and benchmarking activities. I apply information technology in innovative ways to solve business
problems and improve business processes. For example, to enable the accelerated flow of
business process changes from the minds of “Business” to Operations; to eliminate barriers to
unfettered flow of process change through the e-Business development framework; to define the
semantics of business so that application architecture can be optimally employed through
integration of Reference Models in all business domains. Special focus has been given to methods
and tools to ensure business group goals are met in Supply Chain Management and now business
agility through Value Chain Management and through the transition to SOA.
Key Accomplishments
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Deployed business rules from modeling and simulations through next generation Web Services
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Demonstrated Adaptive Supply Chain techniques to mitigate effect of volitility through decision
agents and dynamically adaptable business rules inserted in enterprise processes
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Enabled excellence in value chain performance by leading the development, promotion and
maintenance of a unified, broadly adopted, open standard business process framework, VCOR
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Provided standards-based methods for reducing design process variability and to facilitate rapid
value chain modeling
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Proposed a new methodology to define services from a business process perspective using Value
Streams that were modeled in VCOR
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Demonstrated the value of new OASIS ebSOA standards with focus on context-sensitive decision
making in a heterogeneous environment.
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Initiated research on mapping resource requirements in SOA to virtual computing resources based
on dynamic service models in static context and static service models in dynamic context
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Defined use of a context-sensitive information models applied in goal-directed collaborative
processes in a highly distributed, SOA infrastructure.
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Defined shift to a fundamentally new, integrated process and technology transformation
framework: a two tiered structure that links process with deployment
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Developed repository for exchange of business process frameworks and models, and to ensure
interoperability between the BPM tools
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Led focus on Business Components and Interoperability with ERP
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Managed a Web Service development, asessed and aligned standards and architecture
EDUCATION
1964 M.S.A.E., Georgia Institute of Technology
1962 B.S.A.E., Georgia Institute of Technology
I completed all of the Ph. D. candidacy requirements in Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Institute of
Technology including my dissertation research which was approved and co-published jointly by my
dissertation advisor, but I never returned to defend my dissertation and did not receive the Ph. D.
Corporate Employment Summary Over period from Present back to 1972
Intel Corporation Chandler, AZ
Senior Program Manager, Innovation and IT Research group
I joined Intel in 1994 as Principal Software Scientist within Corporate Information Technology
and have always identified opportunities to apply information technology in innovative ways to
solve business problems and improve business processes.
Introduced SCOR Workshops with several business groups
Worked with the SC Planning team in preparation for formation of SN Group
Introduced SC modeling which was adopted by internal SC projects
Introduced SCOR-based simulation and helped form the SC Modeling and Simulation group
Became Chair of the Supply Chain Council and formed the Strategic Research Committee, SRC
Demonstrated the viability of rapid insertion logic into SCM ERP by developing fuzzy logic
business rules in SCOR-based simulation and deploying as web service
Used similar decision agents for Order Management and demonstrated adaptability via neural nets
Led the SCC SRC Product Design for Supply Chain project which took us beyond SCOR model
Helped launch the Value Chain Group and the VCOR model and VCOR methodology
Became Chair of the Value Chain Group and driving adoption of VCOR on a global basis
Helped Business Architecture group in adoption of VCOR and VCOR training within the VCG
> Introduced Enterprise Business Architecture and use of Value Streams being modeled in VCOR
Introduced the Federated Enterprise Reference Architecture and helped enhance its methodology
which led to Integrated Process and Technology Framework for BPM to SOA mapping
Helped introduce FERA-based SOA defined to ensure semantic integration of collaborative
business processes at runtime and to drive convergence of ebXML and Web Services.
Became Co-Chair of the OASIS ebSOA TC which adopted the FERA-based SOA solution
Became Co-Chair of IT Research Business Agility Sector with focus on VCM, BPM and SOA
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Represent SCOR and VCOR methodology in Corporate Operational Excellence
GDE Systems, Inc. (formerly: General Dynamics Electronics Division) San Diego, CA
Senior Staff, Software Architect
As member of Information Integration Task Force to establish business unit to address new
business opportunities for newly formed GDE Systems, Inc., developed Strategic Plan to leverage
experience in distributed, object-oriented computing as applied to cooperative information
systems and is executing the plan to initiate projects with corporations involved in business
process redesign and IS development using IE and OOIE.
Senior Staff, Software Specialist
Manager of IMIS Software Engineering: Devised the architecture/design and managed the
software development for an Integrated Maintenance Information System for the Air Force. IMIS
is a distributed, integrated workstation environment, including hand held Personal Maintenance
Aid, that supports execution and management of all maintenance activities at the operational
level. Responsibilities included selecting methodology and technologies for the OOA/OOD and
implementation in C++ using I-CASE and Object-oriented database management. Developed
software development plan, selected team members, planned and assigned tasks and provided
overall technical direction.
Science Applications International Corporation Cambridge, MA
Senior Program Manager, Center of Transportation Technology
Responsible for technical contribution and new business development. Leveraged experience that
focused on interactive computing, including direct consulting with the DOT Transportation
System Center, to cultivate and manage new Information Systems Engineering tasks coming
through the DOT TSC Omnibus Contract.
Solely responsible for initiating and managing a systems development project with the Human
Resources Lab at Wright Patterson AFB to architect and implement ( using object-oriented
design and programming methodology, C++ and the X Window System under unix) an IMIS
authoring system to generate, store, organize, retrieve and display Content Data Model (CDM)
compliant technical order information, which comprises the major portion of all maintenance
information. Concurrent with the IMIS project, I was the chief architect for a ruled-based
(KBMS) advisor developed for the U.S. Army Southern Command.
Computer Corporation of America Cambridge, MA
Research and Systems Division (Now Xerox Advanced Information Technology)
Director, Integrated Workstation Environments Section
Responsible for research and development of an advanced user interface technology for domain-
specific workstations, such as command and control and for software development. Responsible
for hiring staff and performance reviews, the development of Section strategy and development of
new business.
Manager, Spatial Data Management System (SDMS) Project
Led the upgrade to the SDMS Battle Management System to accommodate the requirements of a
situation assessment expert systems in battle management through the introduction of related
object-oriented software technology. Introduced a layered architecture for high-performance,
graphics workstations that simplified the complex problem of coherently integrating new and
existing paradigms for decision support applications involving background expert systems. The
architecture provided an object-oriented framework for the integration of the spatial data
management, direct manipulation and query- answer paradigms with automatic synthesis of
graphics.
Digital Equipment Corporation Merrimack, NH
Principal Software Engineer
Member of task force chartered to produce intelligent terminal architecture for the corporation.
Worked on corporate Profession-based System team, contributing the user-environment model. In
the Medium/Large Business Systems group, developed an intelligent terminal architecture and
strategy for layered products in VMS. Participated in advanced development on workstation
support for transaction processing in VMS.
Calspan Corporation Buffalo, NY
Associate Engineer
Led project to develop a multi-minicomputer editorial system to provide interdepartmental
support for text management in newspapers. Was project leader through analysis and design.
Specified system for interactive graphics data analysis to be used as decision support facility for
engineers using adaptive graphics techniques to perform signature analysis of radar data.
Developed numerical methods for conditioning and interpreting digital data.
Consulting Experience During period from 1989 back to 1974
Defined and executed Proof of Concept (POC) prototyping activities at DOT/TSC on a new
major Air Force CALS program called AFTOMS. Involved translating a high level automation
plan for Tech Orders into a more refined systems concept/architecture, assessing the appropriate
technologies, developing project plans, integrating systems and software components to
demonstrate viable technical solutions. Department of Transportation Transportation Systems
Center, Cambridge, MA
Introduced corporate clients to the SL Object-Oriented Graphic Modeling System through
considerable consulting on how to utilize object-oriented programming in developing interactive
graphic, workstation-based applications. Application areas included process control, planning,
command and control. Sherrill – Lubinski, Corte Madera, CA
Member of software architecture team responsible for the architecture of electronic publishing
system designed for Sun Microsystem workstations. Primary responsibility was to specify a
model for documents that would integrate optimally with editing, composition and pagination
requirements. Compugraphic, Inc., Wilmington, MA
Responsible for the design and project management of interactive high-resolution, color graphics
workstation used by artists and designers of video games and educational software. Coleco
Industries, Inc., Hartford, CT
Completed a competitive analysis of software environment of the then to-be- released Honeywell
Personal Computer systems, with special emphasis on graphics capability, as they compared in
the small systems and office automation markets. Honeywell Corporation, Billerica, MA
Managed the enhancements to Software House's DBMS product, System 1022. Applied software
design and systems project management expertise to attain better group organization and
productivity in the System 1022 Development group. Software House, Cambridge, MA
Specified requirements for computer-aided technical publications graphics workstation to be
integrated into a text management environment. Addressed enormous technical manuals
publication problems associated with some large DOD contracts. GTE Products Corporation
Strategic Systems Division, Needham, MA
Evaluated available information services with regard to features, cost and effectiveness to
determine appropriate technology for information retrieval system(s) to be used for electronic
publishing. Harvard Associates, Harvard, MA
Managed the development of minicomputer-based software system that integrated transaction
processing into a text production system. Innovative forms management and virtual terminal
concepts were used to support newspaper business and circulation functions. Gannett
Corporation, Rochester, NY
Contributed to systems study to improve the radiological monitoring program at nuclear power
stations of Commonwealth Edison Company, Chicago, IL. Georgia Institute of Technology
Environmental Resources Center, Atlanta, GA
Created specifications/designs for new software products that provided automation to newspaper
industry: an interactive graphic ad layout system; a second generation editorial front-end system
used in the precomposition processing of news copy. Tal-Star Computer Systems, Princeton, NJ